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WAFFERS

Volume 20 · 91 words · 1815 Edition

or Sealing WAFERS, are made thus: Take very fine flour, mix it with glair of eggs, ifinglas, and a little yeasf; mingle the materials; beat them well together; spread the batter, being made thin with gum-water, or even tin plates, and dry them in a stove; then cut them out for use.

You may make them of what colour you please, by tinging the paste with brafl or vermilion for red; indigo or verditer, &c. for blue; saffron, tumeric, or gamboge, &c. for yellow.

WAGER of LAW. See (Wager of) LAW.